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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I increasingly think Helen Rosner winds up looking like one of the dumbest actors in this. So many people, including a lot of writers, first saw BAF linked in the Rosner tweet where she called Dawn a monster. It’s where I first saw the story— she must have read it the second it came out (or even before?). I think that, combined with Kolker’s choice to start the article with a portrait of Dawn that really stuck— need, “extra”, unsuccessful, off. I think even though there is lots of info about Larson in the piece that is unflattering, the choice to start it off with a critical picture of Dawn really hurt her.

And then Rosner, who is generally considered fairly reasonable on Twitter (and is a food writer, so seems sort of outside the gray here) just basically told all her followers “there’s only one way to view this or you are a bad person.” I think Rosner’s take was more damaging than Roxane Gay’s, because Gay often judges people quickly and harshly on Twitter and a lot of us have learned to be cautious with those takes. But Rosner was definitive and I think it colored a lot of people’s initial reaction.

It’s really annoying to me that she can’t just say at this point “you know what, this was a complicated story and I was probably a bit harsh in my assessment. I forgot for a second these are real people.” Because I really do think that’s what happened.[/quote]

Yes, she looks very bad here. It reflects badly on her employer too. [/quote]

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